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f UNITED STATES Patented September 20, 1904.

cARL scHoNERr, oE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.'

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters-Patent No. 770,540, dated September 20, 1904.

Application filed March 11, 1904.

To all wiz/Um, it may concern.' l

Be it known that I, CARL SCHNERT, acitizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county ofEssex and State of N ew Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers; and I do hereby de- Clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to facilitate the opening of the bottle; to enable the stopper to be secured in the mouth of the bottle with great firmness and security; to reduce the quantity of metal employed in the construction ofthe stopper, and thereby-to reduce the cost of construction; to prevent the wastage of metal in the production of the device, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafterin connection with the description of the Working parts. v

The invention consists in the improved bottle-stopper and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth,and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate correspondingparts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a plan of the head of the bottle and its stopper.- Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken on line w, Fig. 1, showing the parts before the same are finally in their closed positions. Fig. isasimilar section, showing the parts in closed relation. Fig. 4 is a detail plan of the cork or packing-disk. Fig. 5 is a detail plan of a keeper-plate; and Fig. 6 is another section on line a', showing a preferred variation of construction.

In said drawings, 10 indicates the neck or mouth portion of a bottle, at the upper extremity of which and at the inner Walls of the said mouth portion is formed an annular recess 11, which is adapted to receive the edges of the bottle-stopper, cork, or other packing- Serial No. 197,712. (No model.)

disk 12, and a keeper-plate 18 arranged above `said cqrk or packing.

arms 14 of which engage the walls of the mouth of the bottle, clear openings 15, Fig. 1, being thus formed between said corners through which the packing 12 appears to view, and which packing is accessible to a pointed tool of any suitable kind. The exposed packing thus may be readily penetrated by the said tool and .forced out of the said mouth with the keeper-plate lying thereover. The keeperplate is centrally depressed, as at 16, to force the packing hard against the shoulder 17 beneath the groove 11, and at its outer parts it is raised and at the extremities of the arms curved downward. Heretofore, furthermore, in the fastening of the keeper-plate within the mouth of the bottle the metal was permanently bent when being forced into the annular groove in the mouth of the bottle. By my improved 'construction` the vprojecting` downwardly-curved arms 14, formed at the yan approximately square plate, the corners or corners of the plate, enter the groove or recess by a spring action, thereby permitting the removal of the keeper-plate by a reversal of the same spring action, as will be understood upon reference to Fig. 6. Thus the metal keeper-plates can be repeatedly used to advantage and economy.

`Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new isf 1. VThe combination with a bottle having a vround mouth, of a packing adaptedto closethe mouth `of the bottle and a keeper-plate angular in plan to permit access to the packing beneath.

2. The combination with a bottle having a recess within the mouth thereof, of a discous packing and a keeper-plate with arms lying in said recess, the packing being exposed between the arms of said keeper-plate to permit the insertion of a tool, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with a bottle having a recess 'within the mouth thereof, of a discous packing and a keeper-plate with arms lying in said recess, the packing at its periphery being exposed to view between the arms of the keeper-plate, substantially as set forth.

4. The improved stopper comprising a packing and a keeper-plate, the edges of which are out of peripheral conformity with the packing to permit access to the packing from the outside of the bottle.

5. The improved stopper, comprising a packing and a keeper-plate, the keeper-plate being angular in outline to form arms and said arms being bent to enter the recessed mouth of the bottle, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with a bottle having a groove in the mouth thereof, the walls of which are curved in vertical cross-section, of a discous packing closing said mouth and a keeper-plate having arms at its periphery which project outwardly toward the walls of the mouth and have openings between through which a prying' implement may bc inserted and which arms are downwardly curved to engage the walls of the groove with a resilient pressure, substantially as set forth.

7. The improved bottle-stopper, comprising a diseous packing, and an angular keeperplate centrally depressed and having its outer part raised and, at the angles, curved downward, substantially as set forth.

ln testimony that l claim the foregoing 1 have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of March, 1904.

CARL SCHONERT. lVitnesses:

VILLIAM W nnen, Jr., JACOB WTIELAND. 

